Anxiety was expressed in a growing

Anxiety was expressed in a growing body of academic literature that ‘if we continue our present practices we will face a steady deterioration of the conditions under which we live’ (Nathan Glick in Dubos et al. 1970: 2) and about the real danger that humankind ‘may destroy the ability of the earth to support life’ (LaMont C. Cole in Dubos et al. 1970: 3)